439 Tableau Conference Sessions

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Vertica | Strategies & technologies utilized to support hospital operations and business decisions

We, the Data Management Team at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, are confident that we have achieved what we set out to do: acquired the right technologies, developed the appropriate skills and hired the right people to take us on that journey. Today, we can take on any project, any size of data, and can transform them into valuable information to support daily operations as well as business decisions at all levels in the healthcare setting. In this presentation, we will focus on our journey’s evolution from the early challenges to the triumphant outcomes. We will also highlight several key transformational technical projects which help us complete our mission every day. Finally, we will demonstrate how choosing and integrating the right technologies, Tableau and the Vertica Analytics Platform, played a key factor in our success.

Learn how Amazon Redshift and Tableau make it easier to analyze and visualize your data at scale. Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data across your data warehouse and data lake. Tableau’s ability to connect directly to Redshift and leverage its massive computing power means even the most non-technical business user can quickly discover business insights with easy to use drag and drop visual analytics.

In this workshop we will walk you through the process of deploying an Amazon Redshift data warehouse. We will load data into Amazon Redshift from files in an Amazon S3 bucket from beginning to end. Then we will show you how to use Tableau to visually analyze your data.

Content Type:Hands-On Training

Level:Intermediate

Track:General

Keybank | Optimizing the Tableau experience with portal pages

Are you looking to increase your dashboard views? Do you need one place to tell your story? Portal pages are a great way to keep your users targeted and engaged, while making Tableau the star of the show. This session will provide all the information needed to create portal pages within your organization. Topics will include: • KeyBank’s journey into portals • How portals have forced our analysts to become closer to our users • Getting started with a few simple tools (Tableau Server/Tableau API/HTML/Notepad++) • Designing your portals “like the internet” for users of all technical skills • Structuring your portals to be modular & scalable to create a similar look and feel • Best practices to make your portals shine

Speaker(s):

Brian Letzelter, Keybank

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Enablement and Adoption

Prep your data

Before the analysis of data even starts, reports show that 80% of your time is spent gathering, cleaning and preparing data. Why? Because data comes in a variety of files and sources, sizes, structures, and levels of quality. Wouldn’t you rather flip that statistic and spend your time performing the analysis and building great visual analytics and dashboards? If so, let us show you how we “mind the gap” and demonstrate how anyone can use Tableau Prep to reshape and refine data into usable data sets, allowing for analysis. During the session, we will reference common challenges our customers have when it comes to using data.

Speaker(s):

Jeff Black, Tableau

Jeremy Walsh, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:New to Tableau

Track:Data

#WorkoutWednesday | Feel the burn

Calling all problem solvers and workout junkies! Join us as we tackle one of the most revered community initiatives LIVE: #WorkoutWednesday! What is #WorkoutWednesday you ask? The idea is simple: participants challenge themselves to rebuild a dashboard from scratch using predefined requirements and a fully built dashboard as inspiration. In this interactive session, you’ll flex your brain and grow your Tableau skills as you work through the weekly challenge. Plus, you’ll get to see the dashboards recreated in real time by coaches Luke, Rody, and Ann. The best part? You don’t have to wait for Tableau Conference to start getting active. Join us weekly for the challenge at www.workout-wednesday.com and look for our special TC edition to be posted well in advance.

Speaker(s):

Ann Jackson, Jackson Two

Luke Stanke, Tessellation

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Tableau in Action

In the studio with Mapbox

The perfect place for some geographic data is in the background—as a layer in a custom Mapbox map. Come prepared to talk about your data, and to witness a demo ranging from the simple to the most complex cases.

What does operational excellence mean? Many things! Are orders still processing? How quickly are P1 issues being addressed? What errors are trending in our business systems? Do they mean it’s time to change something? Come learn how Tableau’s enterprise applications team within technical operations measures and tracks operational performance metrics, in an effort to drive towards the never-ending pursuit of operational excellence.

Speaker(s):

Andrew Levy, Tableau

Heather Morelli, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Tableau in Action

Give us the deets | LOD calcs for newbies

Familiar with calculated fields, but ready to master a new level of analysis? This intro track on LOD (Level of Detail) expressions is ideal for your eager mind. Learn how to articulate the meaning of "Level of Detail," master best practices, incorporate LOD expressions into your daily workflow, and demonstrate how they differ from other calculations.

Speaker(s):

Rodrigo Cid, Tableau

Howard Min, Tableau

Content Type:Hands-On Training

Level:New to Tableau

Track:Analytics

Breaking down data silos at Sony Pictures Entertainment

A common complaint regarding data analysis is simply getting access to the necessary data… What if the underlying metadata could be aggregated and made available to business users to increase efficiency, save money, improve data quality and most importantly derive actionable insights from the data analysis (rather than intuition alone)?!

Attendees will get a firsthand look at how Sony Pictures Entertainment is utilizing Tableau to aggregate disparate film metadata. This new tool assists operating divisions to make better data-driven decisions and enable collaboration to break down data silos quicker. Practical Tableau dashboard tips and tricks will also be shared.

Speaker(s):

Timothy Park, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Content Type:Mini Theater Session

Level:New to Tableau

Track:Tableau in Action

Mars' self-service analytics in a global enterprise success story

In a world of digital disruption, staying ahead of competition has never been more paramount to the success of an organization. That's why at Mars, exciting technological initiatives have been implemented to derive deep insights from data through analytics. Using a modern business intelligence and analytics approach, Mars moved forward with the concept of self-service analytics using Tableau in the Microsoft Azure Cloud as the preferred tool. In this session, attendees will learn how our self-service analytics approach empowered our associates with governed data, an easy-to-use tool, and training in order to develop an active community, able to unlock value from their data themselves.

Every company is sitting on top of an exponentially increasing amount of data without making the most of it. We all know Tableau helps to make sense out of data but have you considered integrating Tableau into your existing applications? This session will jumpstart your Tableau JavaScript API skills with a live demo showing what is possible and what our customers are doing today. At the end of the session you’ll have a better understanding of all the ways the Tableau JavaScript API can work for you! #TableauJsApi.

Speaker(s):

Jackson Huang, Tableau

Timo Tautenhahn, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Advanced

Track:Developer

Finance @Tableau | Managing risk for our global corporate treasury

Tableau's global corporate treasury team is the central bank of the company and is responsible for managing all aspects of banking services, cash and liquidity management, payment operations, foreign exchange risk, investments, ecommerce and corporate credit cards. This session will demonstrate how we use Tableau to manage a growing and complex global treasury.

Speaker(s):

Ed Barrie, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Tableau in Action

Extending Tableau front and back

Have you heard about the Extensions API, but want to see it in action? Do you want your dashboard to stand out amongst a crowd? Need to directly connect your insights to action, in the same view? This session will show you how to do exactly that. Tableau Zen Masters Chris DeMartini and Tamas Foldi will provide an action-packed demonstration of several Tableau extensions; enabling advanced visualization techniques and capabilities like Write Back. Each extension will be demonstrated live, with a quick overview of the build process. Attendees will gain a better understanding of how to leverage the Extensions API within their own environments. Take this opportunity to be the one who brings new capabilities to back to your team.

The Snowflake platform enabled Logitech’s cloud journey with minimal impact on business operations. The platform acts as a big data fabric layer, and sources data for all of Logitech’s analytics initiatives from descriptive to prescriptive to predictive analytics, including NLP processing engines. Learn how Logitech: * Built a hybrid data fabric to integrate and deliver information across on-premises and cloud seamlessly.* Empowered business users with a symbiotic environment for rapid innovation with guardrails.* Reduced TCO, such as infrastructure and operational expenses, while reaching exceptional service levels and ability to support a wide variety of use cases. * Enabled Tableau platform to be real-time with minimal data extracts, and empowered business for advanced analytics.

Speaker(s):

Avinash Deshpande, Logitech

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Data

Tableau speed charting | 50 charts in 50 minutes

In one of the top-rated sessions for TC17 and TC16, Tableau Zen Masters Andy Kriebel and Jeffrey Shaffer raced the clock and counted Tableau tips. Andy and Jeff are stepping it up for TC18 and will be attempting 50 charts in 50 minutes. Don't miss this fast-paced and fun session.

Speaker(s):

Andy Kriebel, The Information Lab

Jeffrey Shaffer, Unifund

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Analytics

Icimo | Tableau fully engaged: maximizing your Tableau investment

By using Tableau you’re already gaining indispensable insight and transformative value with your data. Tableau’s capabilities provide limitless opportunity as the end user can discover, explore and share data asking and answering questions at the flow of their own thought. But, whether you’re an administrator, key stakeholder or end user, how well you leverage Tableau can significantly impact your success and long-term business adoption. In this session, we’ll explore how to fully engage with Tableau, provide you with a road map to data-driven success, use cases and introduce you to tools to ensure lasting value with your Tableau investment.

Speaker(s):

Bryce Gartner, Icimo

Content Type:Mini Theater Session

Track:Enablement and Adoption

Changing behaviors and delivering business value at State Street

A successful Tableau deployment involves more than creating pretty dashboards. Strong engagement at the executive level of your organization is critical and challenging the way that people think about data will be required. In this session you will learn about State Street’s journey from producing “reports” to leading highly-valued, quantitative and strategic analysis using Tableau. The speakers will outline their strategy for driving strong support from senior management and they will provide insight into how they have used Tableau to change behaviors and deliver measurable business value in an organization with over $33 trillion in assets under custody and administration.

The ability to enrich Tableau’s powerful visualizations with flexible, secure content has enabled Archetype Consulting customers to realize their own data exploration, insight generation, and constituent service-level goals. In this presentation you'll see Python integration via TabPy server, which can be used to invoke Python libraries for numerical computation, advanced analyses, and machine learning (e.g. Numpy, SciPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn). Our Python scripts are stored as TabPy server endpoints for ease of use inside Tableau, as well as change management and migration between environments. We'll also share an approach to provide value-added content alongside Tableau Server, including high interest dashboard marks that drill down to secure content generated in real-time. This end-to-end framework for rich content delivery applies both to public datasets and enterprise environments.

Meetup | Tableau for the DBA

Join us for a special networking opportunity to engage with fellow DBAs. This gathering provides a casual environment to connect with people with a shared interest in SQL Server, Oracle, and other database systems as part of a Tableau environment.

Content Type:Breakout Session

Track:General

Creativity in Design | Dashboarding with a magical mindset at Disney Merchandise

At Disney Parks & Resorts Merchandise, we support analytics for our world-renowned theme parks, cruise, and Vacation Club offerings. From global park sales to individual item-level detail at a single store, our data needs range from determining how many glass slippers to order for the first royal ball to optimizing Arrendale in the event of another ice storm. Join us to be inspired, break away from typical designs, and walk through our Store Performance dashboard design project. This session will show the evolution of our designs, uncover the thought process, and inspire you to create more fun and magical designs.

Speaker(s):

Katie Weander, Disney

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Analytics

Building, deploying, governing and working IT

Are you curious about how IT can enable organizations to go from self-service chaos to self-service Zen? Join this session and learn the pain-points, pitfalls and how-tos behind engineering a solution for successful IT-powered Tableau deployments. You'll learn best practices and strategies for deploying and monitoring Tableau Server, how to leverage automation and APIs to optimize operational support and governance and become the IT hero that you've always wanted to be.

Speaker(s):

Emiliano Colosimo, Tableau

Vinod Karmegam, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:IT and Server Administration

Accenture | See the Light with the Dawn of New Data

Built on a strong track record of success, Accenture’s partnership with Tableau provides innovation and repeatable offerings across the Tableau platform. Accenture has a breadth of Tableau knowledge and expertise with 3,100+ global skilled resources, 6 Delivery Centers of Excellence and successful delivery of 150+ joint deployments. In this session, Accenture will showcase Accenture’s Visual Intelligence and Analytics depth of knowledge and experience leveraging Tableau in various offerings, assets and solutions such as Retail and Financial Services. Come and learn how we can help you transform and analyze your business with powerful business insights on demand.

Speaker(s):

Carl Bradbrook, Javelin Group

Kristian DiGaetano, Accenture

Axel Goris, Accenture

Content Type:Mini Theater Session

Track:Dashboards and Design

DevOps 101 for Tableau Server admins in AWS

Running Tableau Server on AWS? Don't miss these tips on how to do it the DevOps™ way! Turn your automation and monitoring up to 11 with this session. We will look at practical examples of how to: - send SMS alerts when Tableau has a problem - architect Tableau Server VMs in the safest way (using jump hosts) - automate deployments of entire environments with cloudformation (including the tableau server install) - run scheduled commands on the server automatically with SSM commands to implement a robust DR strategy and free your inner server-less hipster (and make your admin life easier) with lambda functions

Speaker(s):

Eric Hannell, Schibsted

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Advanced

Track:Developer

All about SAML | End-to-end Tableau and OKTA integration

Come and learn how to integrate Tableau server with OKTA, one of the most popular SAML providers. In this session, you'll get to see us perform an end-to-end live integration, along with tips and tricks and troubleshooting steps.

Speaker(s):

Abhishek Singh, Tableau

Content Type:Mini Theater Session

Level:Advanced

Track:IT and Server Administration

Calling all Tableau newbies

Still sorting your drags from your drops? Still mixing your dimensions with your measures? This session has your newbie name all over it. Come tackle the fundamentals of Tableau, including how to connect to data, answer statistical questions, build maps, and apply some table calculations in a dashboard you can take with you at the end of the session.

Speaker(s):

Sarah Bohannon, Tableau

Tim Lens, Tableau

Content Type:Hands-On Training

Level:New to Tableau

Track:Analytics

Lyft + Slalom | Creating a data driven recruiting process at Lyft

How do you keep talent coming in the door fast enough when you are experiencing hyper growth? How do you maintain a qualified and diverse workforce, while filling roles to meet the business needs? How do you ensure you are using interviewers time efficiently? Hear from the Heather Torres, Head of People Analytics at Lyft, on how to shift the company from manual tracking to a custom backend solution for delivering key metrics on the organization performance.

Speaker(s):

Evan Roberts, Slalom Consulting

Heather Torres, Lyft, Inc.

Content Type:Breakout Session

Track:Enablement and Adoption

Opening Keynote

Tableau President & CEO, Adam Selipsky, and other data leaders will share their vision for the future of visual analytics.

Content Type:Keynote

Track:General

This is not a love song | How Spotify uses Tableau Public

Spotify uses Tableau Public as a storytelling tool to share interesting insights about music, artists, and global listening behavior. Spotify Data Visualization Designer, Skyler Johnson, walks through several projects that combine Tableau Public and Spotify data. Alongside each story, learn a Tableau trick or visualization style that helped make each visualization possible, and walk away inspired to think about your own data in a different way.

Speaker(s):

Skyler Johnson, Spotify

Content Type:Mini Theater Session

Level:New to Tableau

Track:Dashboards and Design

Deploying Tableau Online using a phased approach for SMBs

The volume and variety of data continues to increase dramatically as a medium-sized media company has transitioned from a primarily analog company to a digital one. However, the existing reporting tools left access to that data in the hands of very few people. Wanting to change this and knowing that there were budget restrictions, we deployed Tableau Online. Leveraging a phased approach, proved to be successful as the buzz around using data for decision-making has never been higher. Learn about our journey through the peaks and valleys of introducing Tableau Desktop and Online. Learn about practical things that worked and minefields to avoid when deploying Tableau.

Speaker(s):

Candra McRae, Lumodis

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:New to Tableau

Track:Enablement and Adoption

Broken promises | How to fix dashboards

“My boss just dumped a bunch of dashboards in my lap and she says that half of them are broken. Help!” Has this happened to you? In this session, you'll see common issues that cause "broken" dashboards, along with a basic troubleshooting flowchart for fixing them. You'll learn how to locate formulas and filters that might be causing problems, and how to reverse-engineer a dashboard to make improvements, so it’s beautiful and useful for everyone who needs it.

Speaker(s):

Jill Hutchinson, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:New to Tableau

Track:Dashboards and Design

Keynote | Iron Viz

Official data source provided by IBM. Calling all champions—this is a showdown you don’t want to miss. Starring three contestants chosen as feeder competition winners, Iron Viz Championship unites them in one final match. Tune in to see each pitted against each other. Wielding matching datasets and Tableau Desktop, these finalists will race to make the finest visualization in the room. The ultimate winner walks with $2,000 (and eternal glory, of course). Doors open at 4:15 PM.

Speaker(s):

Andy Cotgreave, Tableau

Jewel Loree, Tableau

Content Type:Keynote

Track:General

"The Bachelor" fantasy league drives Tableau at Southwest Airlines

For those tasked with teaching your coworkers Tableau, how do you keep people engaged? How do you generate enough interest to overcome inertia with Tableau and get coworkers to try it out? How do you take someone from connecting to data to creating full blown, interactive dashboards? How do you maintain engagement over time? In this session, you will learn the five key strategies utilized by the FP&A department at Southwest Airlines to increase Tableau adoption, expand analytical capabilities, and make training fun for all skill levels. Southwest has tackled these challenges in the past two years, and is eager to see what the future holds with Tableau. We are eager to share our flight plan with you to help you reach your data destination ahead of schedule.

Speaker(s):

Brad Ray, Southwest Airlines

Content Type:Mini Theater Session

Level:New to Tableau

Track:Enablement and Adoption

How Tableau Services can take your Tableau implementation to next level

This session will help you learn how to use customize API and PG scripts to manage server administration such as automate content administration, how to have two HOT HOT clusters which can help achieve 0% down-time, different ways to speed-up content migration between different clusters, on-demand cache management based on freshness of the data and much more.

Speaker(s):

Rithesh Makkena, Tableau

Kesav Rayaprolu, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Advanced

Track:IT and Server Administration

#datakids | What can a 9-year-old teach you about Tableau?

Would you believe that even strong Tableau users can learn something new by teaching Tableau to kids? And have a ton of fun in the process! Join me in this session to start brainstorming your own ideas about how to inspire kids to learn Tableau and become Data Rockstars. When my 9-year-old daughter Maggie brought home an assignment about data and visualizations, I showed her my work on Tableau Public. She said it looked like fun and wanted to build a dashboard of her own. That led to the amazing experience of teaching her how to use Tableau to build her first dashboard which was featured by Tableau as part of the #datakids blog series. Her teachers then asked me to present multiple sessions on data and Tableau to their classes. This has been an amazing experience and sometimes I feel like I have learned more than they have.

Speaker(s):

Chris Jones, ExxonMobil

Content Type:Mini Theater Session

Level:New to Tableau

Track:Tableau in Action

Using languages to build and reason about visualizations

VizQL, the language at the heart of Tableau, ties together UI, queries, and a powerful mental model of data visualization. It allows users to build insightful vizzes and gives tools access to information for automated reasoning about the results. But that's just one example of languages that can allow for rich user input, optimizations, natural language interaction, and machine learning tools.

Speaker(s):

Scott Sherman, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Advanced

Track:Research and Innovation

A day in the life of a data analyst | The data duo in action

Have you ever been asked: - to build a pie chart with 100 slices? - to build sparklines that never decrease because partial months are perceived as tanking? - to label every point on a chart? - to replicate an Excel spreadsheet? A day in the life of an analyst is not easy. We often wear multiple hats and become translators for different parts of the business who often don’t understand data, processes, or even the business itself. In this hands-on session, Zen Masters, Pooja and Adam of TheDataDuo.com will walk through real-life business cases, including gathering requirements, building solutions on-the-fly, and delivering artifacts to our stakeholders. You will learn about techniques employed in our environments and how to deal with stakeholders that have limited to zero data literacy.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) provides food assistance to around 80 million people a year in over 80 countries. WFP's VAM (Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping) unit brings together diverse streams of data in order to analyze and monitor changes in food security. This analysis helps to inform the design of all of WFP's operations. As we incorporate new streams of data and leverage new technologies including Tableau, there is a need for data integration in order to provide a single, common picture that can inform humanitarian decision-making. We will explain our experience with this, as well as our processes, challenges and best practices.

Do you want to build visualizations that help your city or agency prioritize capital improvements? Direct resources to at-risk neighborhoods? Improve emergency operations? Increase cross-departmental collaboration? A major impediment to city staff making well-informed decisions that support equitable, long-term solutions is the lack of reliable data presented in an easy-to-understand format. Using open data in Tableau can help you solve that problem. In this session, learn how Headwaters Economics is using Tableau and U.S. Census data to provide cities across the country with access to up-to-date, neighborhood-level information about at-risk people and their vulnerability to the impacts from climate change. Learn lessons for developing Tableau tools for your city or agency. Headwaters Economics will share examples and design practices that have resulted from working directly with municipal staff.

Speaker(s):

Patty Gude, Headwaters Economics

Content Type:Mini Theater Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Analytics

Windstream | Tableau brings sales and marketing together

Windstream’s Campaign Influence project brings together data from Marketo, SalesForce, and billing systems to provide a single source of truth across sales and marketing. Learn how the marketing strategy team developed a common language and measurable goals to understand trends and create an environment for agile business deployment decisions. Moving from manual spreadsheet reporting to automated, systematic updates wasn’t easy, but efficient design and strategic partnerships from inception to deployment resulted in a sustainable, effective, and time-saving tool. This session will cover the importance of creating consistency across departments with tips to get there, how to design for a range of users from executives to individual contributors, and clear concepts to capture marketing influence.

Speaker(s):

Kelsey Robb, Windstream Enterprise

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Enablement and Adoption

Turning questions into answers

Tableau's mission is to allow users to ask questions of their data and see the answers. However, this isn't always as easy as it sounds. Where do you start? How do you translate a question that you have into a Tableau visualization so that you can see the answer? In this session, we will walk through some examples and build a framework for breaking down questions to see how the question can be translated into operations in the Tableau interface. We will work on understanding how the level of detail in a question impacts how you set up your data source, and the features you use in Tableau.

Speaker(s):

Ross Bunker, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Analytics

Dashboard Cerberos | How your data speaks to three audiences

With important company data, it's often tempting to make a single dashboard that will show the data in the best possible way for everyone at the company. This is a trap. Different people need different things from the data, and have different design considerations. In this session, we'll walk through three typical audiences (Exec, middle management, and ICs) and how to make the data useful for each.

Bring out the magic from your data and create impactful visualizations and meaningful data stories. In this talk we show how you can achieve powerful performance and effective storytelling with the right tools and a smart approach. We will take you through a live demo and leave you with our recommended best practices for tackling large data volumes in Exasol, visualized quickly in Tableau. Join us for a session packed with tips, real business scenarios and some visual inspiration.

Want mobile visualizations outside of Tableau Mobile? Have an existing app you’d like to juice up with some vizzes? This session will dive deep into Tableau’s open-source mobile app bootstrap. We’ll discuss the new React Native framework and how it enables web developers to write cross-platform apps. We’ll also cover how to retrieve viz images for offline use, the basics of authenticating with Tableau Server, and how to set up long-lasting user sessions. Common app pitfalls will also be covered, alongside tales of amazement…and sadness…from organizations who’ve worked with the mobile app bootstrap.

Speaker(s):

Ron Theis, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Intermediate

Track:Developer

Stirred, not shaken | The perfect data blend

Need to combine data from disparate sources? Scarier still—do you have data in spreadsheets, databases, and multiple other systems? Is it in the cloud? If reading this just amped up your heart rate, this session is for you. Learn basic techniques needed to bring data together (from all different data sources), and all within Tableau! There are no prerequisites for this session, but it’ll be especially helpful for users who bring a basic knowledge of the Tableau Desktop interface. Expect to master the basics of data blending in Tableau, an intro to cross-database joins, terminology, troubleshooting and more.

Speaker(s):

Rob Chapekis, Tableau

Evan Slotnick, Tableau

Content Type:Hands-On Training

Level:Intermediate

Track:Data

Sales @Tableau | How Tableau uses data to manage its workforce

Get an inside look at how Tableau runs their technical sales organization of over 300 people using Tableau products. A key to the sales efforts of any technology company is the technical subject matter experts that help a customer find the best solution to meet their needs. In software, this position is often referred to as pre-sales. At Tableau, we call this group customer consulting. Tracy Fagan, Tableau's VP of Customer Consulting, and his team, will share our strategy for how we use data to measure the health of our business and our products to stay on top of what matters every day. You will walk away from this session with new ideas on how to manage your team.

Speaker(s):

Tracy Fagan, Tableau

Matt McWhorter, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:New to Tableau

Track:Tableau in Action

Server tools 202 | Capacity planning and load testing with TabJolt

Are you curious about how Tableau Server scales in your environment with your workbooks? Want the skinny on the best server deployment configuration? Do you want to make sure your Tableau Server upgrade goes smoothly, or verify that the configuration changes you are planning doesn't adversely impact performance? In this session, you'll learn about TabJolt - A "point and run" performance load testing tool written specifically for Tableau Server. You will also learn about capabilities, new features in the latest version of TabJolt, and how to analyze your performance results to make capacity planning decisions.

Speaker(s):

Zac Boller, Tableau

Ravi Krishnamaneni, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Level:Advanced

Track:IT and Server Administration

Diversity and Inclusion Town Hall

Hear from Tableau about our most recent Diversity & Inclusion initiatives, then join an open conversation to share successes and learnings, be inspired by D&I-minded peers, and gather applicable insights.

Speaker(s):

Andrew Beers, Tableau

Sarah Pierre-Louis, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Track:General

Meetup | Sales Analytics

From pipeline management to understanding their customers better, sales departments are using analytics to make every minute and call count. This gathering provides a casual environment to connect with and learn from other sales leaders and sales operations professionals.

Speaker(s):

Martha Jaworski, Tableau

Britt Staniar, Tableau

Content Type:Breakout Session

Track:General

Living with GDPR

This session offers a brief overview of the new European Union General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and shows you how use Tableau products to analyze, present, and store personal data successfully in the GDPR world.